Abaxial leaf faces ± tomentose. Involucres ovoid to campanulate, 2–2.8 × 1.5–3 cm, villous-ciliate with long septate trichomes connecting adjacent phyllaries and/or thinly arachnoid-tomentose. Phyllaries in 5–6 series, imbricate or subequal, green or with maroon to dark brown subapical patch or appendage, linear to linear-lanceolate, abaxial faces with narrow glutinous ridge that is often concealed by trichomes; outer and middle bases appressed, apical appendages erect or stiffly ascending, linear-lanceolate to acicular, entire or spinulose-dentate, spines erect or ascending, 2–5 mm; apices of inner sometimes flexuous or reflexed, narrow, flat, and entire or expanded, scarious, and lacerate-dentate.
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